Lyrics are what I tend to tear hair out over and they're where I tend to feel weak musically, if I'm being very honest. It is not something I feel like I know anything about; I would not consider myself a writer. I just want to sing, I just want to sing a melody, I just want to feel a melody, and be part of the song, and everything else is not so important.
Zach CondonWhen I came back to America, I realized that world music is no joke, it really has a lot to it.
Zach CondonI think, if I had my choice, I would spend all my time in the studio writing, and creating music.
Zach CondonI love the community and the entertainment too much. I'm used to it - it's what I saw first.
Zach CondonI'm sure that's every adolescent's complaint about their home town. When a city is unstimulating, you get pretty isolated.
Zach CondonI didn't realize how different our band's senses of melody actually were. I would write a part that just made perfect sense to me, but for them, it was mind-boggling. Likewise, they could play stuff with relative ease that I never could have. If there was something lost in translation melodically, it wouldn't work at all - we'd just be 17 people in a giant room staring awkwardly at each other. When that happened, I'd go home, figure out what was wrong, fix it, and then return to smooth sailing.
Zach Condon